Word: sales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporting the sale of Ludington Air Lines (New York-Philadelphia-Washington), to Eastern Air Transport for $250.000, TIME said: "Ludington set a new low for fares, a new high for economy of operation," added that Ludington had performed a feat unusual for an air transport line by managing to profit without an airmail subsidy the first year of its operation (1930-31). TIME erred in reporting that Ludington's $1,000,000 capitalization had been fully subscribed by the Brothers Ludington...
...bill at the grocers was $200. Other stores about town had claims of $600 on him for household furnishings, clothes, books, jewelry. Against him was pending a $1,000 deficiency judgment because his home, on which he had a $5,000 mortgage, brought only $4,000 at forced sale. A friend held his unsecured note for $500. That made his total indebtedness $3,000 and his creditors were clamoring for full and immediate payments...
While waiting to resume work, Dr. Andrews last week watched his The New Conquest of Central Asia go on sale in Manhattan. It is Vol I of a series of twelve which the American Museum of Natural History is publishing concerning Dr. Andrews' Central Asiatic work. The other eleven are specialized & academic-geology, topography, fossils, reptiles, fishes, mammals of Mongolia and China. The New Conquest of Central Asia recounts for laymen the lively adventures of the expeditions. It describes the nomad life of the Gobi Desert, the thrill of discovering fossils, the troubles of dealing with bandits...
Senator Couzens: Doesn't it [the bonus system] inspire a lack of care in the sale of securities to the public...
Bliss also revealed that 230 copies were subscribed for during the first two days that the Red Book was placed on sale. A notable feature of the book is that President Lowell will write two pages...